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In a last-minute re-recording of his weekly address, President Obama praised the House for passing the energy bill on Friday and pressured the Senate to quickly do the same.

The president delivered the same exact speech he gave Thursday in the Rose Garden calling on the House to pass the bill - he just adjusted the tense and changed a few turns of phrase.

"Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a historic piece of legislation that will open the door to a clean energy economy and a better future for America," Obama said in his weekly address.

("Right now, the House of Representatives is moving towards a vote of historic proportions on a piece of legislation that will open the door to a new clean energy economy," Obama said in the Rose Garden on Thursday.)

Obama repeated his line about the legislation being "balanced and sensible." But he added in his address: "I want to thank every member of Congress who put politics aside to support this bill on Friday."

The president had initially recorded a weekly address in which he made a push for health care reform. The energy address was distributed after the House passed the bill.

In it, Obama put the bill in the same context he did on Thursday, saying, "Make no mistake: this is a jobs bill." (Thursday: "Now, make no mistake - this is a jobs bill.")

Obama referenced the same examples he used in Thursday's remarks to demonstrate - 3,000 Californians will be employed to build a new solar plant; wind turbines and wind technology will create some 2,600 jobs in Michigan; and three new solar projects in Florida will put 1,400 people to work, he said.

"Now my call to every Senator, as well as to every American, is this: We cannot be afraid of the future," Obama said in his weekly address. "And we must not be prisoners of the past."

(On Thursday he said, "my call to those members of Congress who are still on the fence, as well as to the American people, is this: We cannot be afraid of the future, and we can't be prisoners of the past.")

In conclusion, Obama praised the House for passing the energy bill.

"So I want to congratulate the House for passing this bill, and I want to urge the Senate to take this opportunity to come together and meet our obligations - to our constituents, to our children, to God's creation, and to future generations," he said. "Thanks for listening."

(Thursday: "So let's take this opportunity to come together and meet our obligations - to our constituents, to our children, to God's creation, and to future generations. Thank you very much.")

If someone can think of anything less important to our society than the content of this article, let me know. There is a huge amount of important content to debate on this controversial topic, none of which appears here. Must be an off day for news at Politico - so much space to fill, so little thought to fill it....

A huge improvement over the antics Bush used to get his message out. Produce WH videos at taxpayers expense, hand them over to Faux News, and then Faux offers up the propaganda funded and produced by us taxpayers dollars as factual news.

I would like to praise obama for selling our country out in less than 6 months. What threats or bribes did you use on congres to pass this tax and tax bill? All politicians are alike - they forget who pays their salaries and that includes the DOTHUS (DESTROYER OF THE US). Already foreign countries are offering tax breaks to our industries - wonderful job - America will be green with her citizens starving and freezing to death while the rest of the world will still be polluting, but their citizens will have jobs and will be able to afford food.

protestors yesterday shut the phone lines down in dc and yet the DOTHUS thinks he did a wonderful thing? The taxpayers who pay for his $100 per pound beef objected thoroughly to this tax and more tax bill but he acts like it was a landslide. WAKE UP AMERICA!! WE ARE BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

protestors yesterday shut the phone lines down in dc and yet the DOTHUS thinks he did a wonderful thing? The taxpayers who pay for his $100 per pound beef objected thoroughly to this tax and more tax bill but he acts like it was a landslide. WAKE UP AMERICA!! WE ARE BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

protestors yesterday shut the phone lines down in dc and yet the DOTHUS thinks he did a wonderful thing? The taxpayers who pay for his $100 per pound beef objected thoroughly to this tax and more tax bill but he acts like it was a landslide. WAKE UP AMERICA!! WE ARE BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

This has got to be the most useless story I have read yet on Politico. Who cares if the President re-used a speech? The House passes the most significant climate change bill ever passed in the U.S. Congress, and Politico is worried about reuse of a speech? No wonder journalism is in decline in the U.S.

I'm not nearly as concerned with the president's repetition of a speech as I am with the political corruption of this bill. According to an editorial in Thursday's L A Times - Reap what we sow - the farm lobby used all its considerable muscle to dilute the power and impact of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" . I love the names of these bills. I'm surprised they didn't call it the Apple Pie Imperative.

The "adjusted" bill allows farmers to "...invest in carbon-reduction programs rather than cutting their own emissions," while it completely guts a provision that would have forced the EPA "...to consider the indirect climate impact of biofuels." In other words, for those of you familiar with The West Wing, they were forced to take "the ethanol pledge."

If this bill is indeed the first step toward clean air and energy independence, it is a slow and clumsy one, filled with stupidity and greed. Not much to be proud of.

I'm not nearly as concerned with the president's repetition of a speech as I am with the political corruption of this bill. According to an editorial in Thursday's L A Times - Reap what we sow - the farm lobby used all its considerable muscle to dilute the power and impact of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" . I love the names of these bills. I'm surprised they didn't call it the Apple Pie Imperative.

The "adjusted" bill allows farmers to "...invest in carbon-reduction programs rather than cutting their own emissions," while it completely guts a provision that would have forced the EPA "...to consider the indirect climate impact of biofuels." In other words, for those of you familiar with The West Wing, they were forced to take "the ethanol pledge."

If this bill is indeed the first step toward clean air and energy independence, it is a slow and clumsy one, filled with stupidity and greed. Not much to be proud of.

If this bill is indeed the first step toward clean air and energy independence, it is a slow and clumsy one, filled with stupidity and greed. Not much to be proud of.

June 2009 will be remembered as the month that Barack Hussein Obama, whom I supported, lost control of the national leadership because of feckless timidity, confusion, lust for popularity and a senior staff composed of either life-long cronies or special interest lobbyists he brought in to make up for his "innocence" on fiscal, financial and economic issues.

Obama lies and Americans believe him. He said in his words that our utility bills would "skyrocket", his words and stupid stupid Americans after all the lies and all the signs of Marxism believed he was so smart "for a black guy" they in their guilt voted for this mistake!! He wants us to be a Third World country and if you can't see that! His past is ripe with Atheism, communism, and Marxism..he was raised this way, taught this way, and yet the masses are blinded by his blackness and love it so and those dramatic speeches written by who knows who, probably Axelrod although they sure resemble Wright's way of speaking. It's no use, people just aren't opening their eyes to this maniac. AFRICAN COLONIALISM LOOK IT UP. NO WONDER HE'S BEEN RUDE TO G.W.